Syngefinger
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As stated in another thread, I recently picked up a COMET pinball from that a local guy had listed on CL. Before I bought it I noticed that the voices weren't working during gameplay, but the seller told me the voices annoyed his wife, so he had them turned off. I figured it wouldn't be very hard to get them working again. Apparently, I was wrong or I am missing something simple?
When I push the manual test switch on the CPU, the voices cycle through properly and when I push the 2nd test switch on the CPU it gives me a code of "0" which, according to the sticker inside the head, means that no errors were detected. I've tried to adjust both volume knobs, located on the sound board and the one on the inside left of the cabinet. Those both only seem to increase the volume only and no speech is heard, as I've read that the one knob supposedly increases the amount of speech effects. Is this correct?
Also, if the voices are working when the test switch is active, but otherwise not heard in the game, could it possibly be a bad ROM? I've noticed that the U4, U5, U6 and U7 speech roms are all present. If the U-20 Speech rom was bad, would the manul tests switches on the CPU still produce speech? Any pinball experts have any ideas as to what to check next?
When I push the manual test switch on the CPU, the voices cycle through properly and when I push the 2nd test switch on the CPU it gives me a code of "0" which, according to the sticker inside the head, means that no errors were detected. I've tried to adjust both volume knobs, located on the sound board and the one on the inside left of the cabinet. Those both only seem to increase the volume only and no speech is heard, as I've read that the one knob supposedly increases the amount of speech effects. Is this correct?
Also, if the voices are working when the test switch is active, but otherwise not heard in the game, could it possibly be a bad ROM? I've noticed that the U4, U5, U6 and U7 speech roms are all present. If the U-20 Speech rom was bad, would the manul tests switches on the CPU still produce speech? Any pinball experts have any ideas as to what to check next?
